Collection of single and album tracks recorded for ABC-Paramount Records between 1963 and 1965. All tracks produced by Felton Jarvis and arranged by Bill Justis.
Track sources
ABC-Paramount single 10444: 1, 2
ABC-Paramount single 10475: 3
ABC-Paramount single 10484: 5
ABC-Paramount single 10455: 6
ABC-Paramount single 10512: 7, 8
ABC-Paramount single 10531: 9
ABC-Paramount single 10567: 11, 13
ABC-Paramount single 10584: 14
ABC-Paramount single 10596: 15
ABC-Paramount single 10631: 16
ABC-Paramount LP 455 Here Comes Fats Domino: 1-6, 8
ABC-Paramount LP 479 Fats on Fire: 10-12
ABC-Paramount LP 510 Getaway with Fats Domino: 15-18
ReviewTitle is a bit misleading since a "very best" of Fats would include the classic sides he made for Imperial Records between 1949 and 1963, when he left that label for ABC-Paramount. The ABC sides, recorded between 1963 and 1965, are the ones featured here. Instead of building on Fats' success recording in New Orleans, ABC sent him to Nashville. That's not as incongruous a move as you might think, considering Domino's clear country influences. Unfortunately, the glossier treatment with strings and vocal chorus produced only one top 40 hit in "Red Sails in the Sunset." The later sides like "Heartbreak Hill" and "Wigs" are more like the Fats the public had come to know, but by that time the British Invasion had swept many American R&B artists off the charts. The collection closes with a nice reworking of his 1956 hit "When My Dreamboat Comes Home." Out of print but not difficult to find.